The Longbow Shop Blog — arrows

Right Wing or Left Wing? OK we are asked this question a lot. Which feathers do I use on my arrows - Right Wing or Left Wing? The simple answer is use whatever you want as long as they are all the same wing on the arrow. So all Right wing or all left wing… no mixing on the same arrow! It makes no difference whatsoever in our opinion to the arrows flight and we have experimented a lot over the years. Some myths say that the arrow needs to spin away from the bow - we don’t agree with...

We had great visit from Made in Liverpool TV’s Lowdown presenters Ben and Gaelle this week. As part of their weekly programme they wanted to learn how to shoot so when they approached us to come and have a go with us of course we said yes! They spent a while being taught how to shoot a recurve bow by coaches Harry and Mike. We started them off on our club trainer bows and then moved them on to an English Longbow. We love teaching archery to people and never get tired of seeing the big smiles on new archers faces!...

Did you know that The Longbow Shop has supplied some fantastic TV and film production companies over the last few years? Our work can be seen in the following (sorry we can’t give you a full list as some of it is hush hush!) BBC – The White queen We supplied some of our medieval style arrows for this popular TV series and they were used throughout. We really like the behind the scenes photo of some of the arrows being used Henry V - Royal Shakespeare Company We supplied english longbows for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Henry...

Robert Hardy visited the Longbow Shop on May 2015 which is a date everyone will remember for a very long time to come and a high point for the UK's largest traditional archery shop based in Birkenhead. The Longbow Shop had the privilege of hosting a day with the legendary actor, author and longbow expert Robert Hardy CBE who enthralled over 100 guests, sharing his amazing experiences and knowledge about longbows and the famous battles they were used in while keeping the enthusiastic crowd of people (archers and non-archers alike) spellbound and hanging on every word. Mr Hardy gave insights...

TV, radio and Big Brother celebrity archer James Whale takes time out to review our Basic Medieval wood arrows - he really likes them!